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Steps to the Spirit

Steps to the spirit is about my search for, discovery of, and use of the Spirit to live my life according to the wishes and plans of God. I also call them gifts from God because I believe He has given us these tools to enable us to find a closer relationship with Him. I invite you to join me in this quest that is at times both difficult and extremely fulfilling. I will try to explain how and why it became necessary to surrender, thus enabling me to begin to live according to God"s plan.I will post

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15:03

The 12-Step Program – Overview (Part 1)

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2026/01/18

Send us a text This episode, and possibly the next I am dedicating to the formation of the 12 step program. If any of you have been listening to this podcast for a while, then you will know how much importance I put on the Oxford Group. I would go so far as to say that every one of the steps in the 12 step program has, in some way, I direct connection to the substance of the Oxford Group. Bill Wilson, the cofounder of the 12 step program, learned about a way to become sober through his friend...

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Podcast Overview & Spiritual Goals

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2026/01/11

Send us a text From time to time, I like to talk to you about why I felt a need to start this podcast, why this podcast continues to exist, and, basically, what it is all about. I know some of you are old-time listeners, and really are kind of in sync with my line of thinking, certainly no what I am all about, including this podcast. Please feel free to skip this week and tune in on 14 January for the actual beginning of this year’s podcasts. I’ll start with another attempt to explain the 12 ...

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12:30

Happy New Year!

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2026/01/04

Send us a text Let me start by wishing you all very happy new year. In my estimation, 2025 seem to be becoming a little better towards the end of the year. In addition, it seems to me that the year 2026 will continue to be a better one for most of humanity. Of course, I am talking from the United States, and I realize that things, and life in general, is not good in some other parts of the world. All I can say to that is hang in there, do what you can to improve your situation, and please rem...

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13:09

My Christmas Message

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2025/12/28

Send us a text I don’t have much in the way of the description for this episode. It is my last episode of the year, as well as what I am calling my Christmas message. I know that some of you are not Christian, but after all is said and done I would still refer to myself as a Christian. The system of philosophy that I created is called, Mystical Interrelational Trinitarianism. The word Trinitarianism refers to the Trinity of most Christian r anyway , I am really not sur...

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14:30

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 7)

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2025/12/21

Send us a text This episode will be the end, or last, episode of the six basic assumptions. As a reminder the sixth assumption is: 6. Those who have been “changed” must “change others”. There are couple of words in this assumption that are a little surprising, and that would never be found in the 12-step program that we have today. The first word of course, is “changed”. Although we do not see this word in the modern 12-step program, it is indicated, especia...

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14:44

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 6)

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2025/12/14

Send us a text This episode brings us to the end of the Oxford group’s six basic assumptions. The sixth: basic assumption is 6. Those who have been “changed” must “change others”. Any of you who are familiar with the 12-step program will recognize basic assumption as being directly related to step number 12. Of course, the wording is a little different, as well as how they characterize those who are working on the program. There are major differences in the way these ideas are presented...

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12:36

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 5)

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2025/12/07

Send us a text This episode is a continuation of the six basic assumptions of the Oxford Group, specifically, assumption number five which is: 5. The ‘Age of Miracles has returned. These lists were made at the beginning of the existence of the Oxford Group. I am not really familiar with what stage the belief in God or religion in general had gotten to at that point. This seems to have been, at least from the point of view of the Oxford Group, some sort of spiritual revival, at lea...

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The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 4)

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2025/12/03

Send us a text I don’t know how I missed episode number 48! Maybe my old age of 81 (January 16), is catching up with me. Anyway, to my regular listeners, I’m sorry I missed it. Here it is now. This episode is about the fourth of the six basic assumptions that are found in the Oxford Group. It is as follows: 4. The changed soul has direct access to God. So, rather way we notice that, at least in the Oxford Group, the person who has surrendered to God is called a “changed” person. In this parti...

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12:50

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 3)

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2025/11/23

Send us a text This episode is a continuation of our look at six basic assumptions. Once again, I am including a list of these assumptions. They are: The 6 Basic Assumptions: 1. Men are sinners. 2. Men can be changed. 3. Confession is prerequisite to change. 4. The changed soul has direct access to God. 5. The ‘Age of Miracles’ has returned. 6. Those who have been “changed” must “change others”. Today I’ll be speaking about the third assumption, which is, C...

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13:04

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 2)

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2025/11/16

Send us a text We are now at the second of the six basic assumptions. That second assumption is, “Men can be changed.” As a reminder, we saw in the first assumption that men are sinners. And I think in our present day language, that that assumption means because of our humanity and our free will, not to mention our proclivity to gain pleasure and happiness for ourselves, we are always ready to sin. Hopefully, you can all get over this word “sin”, in the realization that we are all participant...

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The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 1)

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2025/11/09

Send us a text In this episode will begin the last of the Oxford Groups lists that we will be looking at in this podcast. This would just called: The Six Basic Assumptions. I am including this list (as it was written), below. The 6 Basic Assumptions: 1. Men are sinners. 2. Men can be changed. 3. Confession is prerequisite to change. 4. The changed soul has direct access to God. 5. The ‘Age of Miracles’ has returned. 6. Those who have been “changed” must “ch...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 6)

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2025/11/02

Send us a text In this episode I’ll be speaking about the fifth and last of the Oxford Group’s five procedures. As I have said many times before, the Oxford group was really the precursor to the 12- step program. Just about every one of their various lists can be matched up in some ways to the 12 step program. This current list that were working on, the five procedures, is no different, especially this last procedure. This procedure is: 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. It obviously co...

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12:59

The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 5)

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2025/10/26

Send us a text In this episode I’ll be speaking about number four of the five procedures. The number four procedure is: restitution. Restitution, of course, at first blush, comprises two of the steps in the 12-step program. Those steps would be steps eight and nine where I make a list of everyone I have harmed in step eight, and then I proceed to go through that list, trying, as best I can, to make amends to those people I harmed. The fact is (I believe) there are three more steps that this w...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 4)

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2025/10/19

Send us a text In this episode of speaking about the third Procedure. The third procedure is: Check Guidance This procedur is very simply stated and implies a very simple action. However, I believe it is so much more important than it seems. If you are a frequent flyer to this podcast you are aware that my main objective as a person who has said “yes” to God, is to listen for the direction of my Spirit. There are inherent problems with this action, namely, ego and rationalization. There can b...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 3)

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2025/10/12

Send us a text As a reminder, these are the five procedures: The Five Procedures 1. Give in toGod. 2. Listen to God’s direction. 3. Check guidance. 4. Restitution. 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. This is episode three, and I will be speaking about procedure number two, Listen to God’s direction. I see this procedure as being aligned with steps number three and eleven. As we take step three on as our own, and say that holy “yes”, I surrender to God, I am ...

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13:48

The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 2)

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2025/10/05

Send us a text Below is the list of the five procedures: The Five Procedures 1. Give in toGod. 2. Listen to God’s direction. 3. Check guidance. 4. Restitution. 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. As we have seen before, this list not only mirrors, but preempts a list of 12-steps. The first, and simply stated, procedure is, “Give in to God.” This procedure, simple in its wording, is what I believe to be the most important action we can take in any of the list...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 1)

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2025/09/28

Send us a text In this episode I will be going over yet another group of tenets, or reminders from the Oxford group. The five items in this list are referred to as the five procedures. I’m not sure when, why, or where these lists of things or develop, but they seem to help the members of the Oxford group to stay on their spiritual course and become what seems to have been the main goal, changed. You may ask, why it is that I find the snippets from the Oxford group to be important. Well, this ...

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11:48

The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 6)

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2025/09/21

Send us a text In this final episode about the list of the 5 C’s from the Oxford group, I will speak about the relationship to step number 12 and the last of the C’s, continuance. While the word continuance makes a definite, personal connection with steps number 10 and 11, it makes both the personal and “others” connection in the 12th step. On the one hand it speaks of our personal, spiritual experience and practicing this program in all our affairs. On the other hand, the step encourages us ...

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The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 5)

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2025/09/14

Send us a text The fifth item in this list of five C’s is Continuance. The placing of this word continuance makes a lot of sense, only compare the list to the 12 steps. The word continuance holds so much meaning as a pointer to the 12-step program that I have decided to use two episodes to discuss it. In this episode, I would like to use this word continuance as a pointer to the 10th, 11th step. As a reminder the 10th step is I continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong, promptly...

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The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 4)

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2025/09/07

Send us a text The subject for this episode is the word for (or idea of) a change in our spiritual attitude. This is the fourth in the current group of episodes having to do with the five C’s, as they were called in the Oxford Group. This word is: Conversion As I have said before, these lists from the Oxford Group, and the order in which they are presented do not necessarily match the order of the 12 steps. This is, of course, because we do not have a comparison of the two program...

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